Tag.



W. F. BARNES.

TAG.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 18. 1916.

1,226,050. Patented May 15, 1917.

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INVENTOR part san strains raraiair carton WILLIAM F. BARNES, OF SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA.

TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1917.

Application filed February 18, 1916. Serial No. 79,141.

I able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This 1nvent1on relates to improvements 111 tags such as are employed for identification purposes when applied to bales of cotton,

etc.

One object of the invention is to construct an identification tag in such manner that the attaching end thereof shall be reinforced, and so that the reinforcement shall also serve to cover and protect duplicate identifying data on the card against destruction by either fire or Water and serve furthermore to prevent release of the attaching wire from the tag.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of ,eonstruction as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a tag showing th application of my improvement; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a view of a modification.

1 represents a tag which is usually constructed of card board and provided near one end with a hole for the passage of a tie-wire, this portion of the tag, as commonly constructed being reinforced by disks or patches of suitable material glued or otherwise fixed to respective faces of the tag around said hole.

l/Vhen tags are employed for use on cotton bales and for other purposes they are provided with certain identifying data, such as a number, as 1nd1cated at 2. It some times happens, when the tag is exposed to moisture it becomes softened and by reason thereof is lost from the bale or the tag may be burned and the identification of the bale or package destroyed. In order to obviate such destruction of the identification of the bale, I propose to provide duplicateidentifying data on the tag, as indicated at 3, and

protect the same from destruction by either fire or water, by means of an indestructible shield; a made pref rably of m tal o oth r fireproof material and secured to the tag by rivets or otherwise so as to exclude air and moisture and preclude the possibility of the destroying effects of fire or water reaching that portion of the tag which contains the duplicate identifying data, so that should all portions of the tag except that portion containing the duplicate identifying matter be destroyed or lost, it would still be possible to identify the bale or package. My in vention is valuable for use in warehouses, gins, and cotton compresses where fire is liable to occur.

The metal shield at not only covers and protects the duplicate identifying data but it also assists the usual patches 5 in reinforcing the attaching end of the tag and furthermore it also serves to provide a metallic attachment for the tiewire 6 to the tag so as I to render practically impossible the pulling away of the tag from said tie-wire.

The respective leaves of the shield may be made so as to conform to the shape of the end portion of the tag, extend from edge to edge of the latter and cover the whole end portion of the tag and secured to the tag in any suitable manner,for example, by means of rivets 4*.

The tie-wire 6 may be passed through the reinforced hole in the tag and then through the shield where the fold of the latter engages the end of the tag.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 3, the metallic shield 4 may consist of a strip of sheet metal bent upon itself so as to embrace the end portion of the tag and the edges of the two leaves thus formed may be rounded and secured to the tag by means of punchings, such as illustrated at 7.

In the construction shown in Fig. 3, the

respective leaves of the shield are made with holes 8 which aline with each other and with the hole in the tag for the passage of the tie wire 6. IVith this construction, the usual patches around the hole in the tag might be omitted.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. A tag having identifying data thereon and also having a duplicate of said identifying data thereon, and an indestructible fireproof shield applied to said tag and covering said duplicate identifying data and serving also to reinforce the tying end of the tag,

2. A tag having identifying data thereon In testimony whereof I have signed this and also having a duplicate of said identifyspecification in the presence of two subscriblng data thereon near one end of the tag, mg Witnesses.

and an indestructible fireproof shield com- VVILLI AM F. BARNES.

prising two metal leaves embracing and sel Vitnesses: cured to the endportion of the tag and cov- L. A. GRIER, ering said identlfying data. 7 Row. F. PHIFER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the fiommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

